by jpitney | Sep 10, 2023 | Hispanic, Journalism, Journalists, Language
Emma J. Murphy at The American Prospect: News deserts are expanding. Nearly two decades ago, the United States had about 9,000 newspapers; as 2019 came to a close, it had 6,700. Of the country’s 3,143 counties, over 200 have no newspaper or other sources of credible...
by jpitney | Jan 15, 2023 | African American, Asian American, Congress, Hispanic, House of Representatives, Senate
Katherine Schaeffer at Pew: A quarter of voting members of the U.S. Congress identify their race or ethnicity as something other than non-Hispanic White, making the 118th Congress the most racially and ethnically diverse to date. This continues a long-running trend...
by jpitney | Aug 14, 2021 | Asian American, California Politics, Census, Demographics, Hispanic
Adam Beam at AP: California’s Asian population grew by 25% in the past decade, making it the fastest growing ethnic group in the nation’s most populous state, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday. California’s white population...
